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...Slacker Malgre Lui. Once back home, the ex-President's holiday mood slipped off, as he watched the Republicans, under Taft, grow more cautious and passively conservative. "I was able to hold the Republican Party in power," he wrote, "only because I insisted on a steady advance, and dragged them along with me. Now the advance has been stopped...
...line coach had wandered back to the locker room. "We've got all kinds," he said. "Fencers, swimmers, they all wander up. I've get a few slacker-offs, but most work at it pretty hard." He unlaced his shoes and headed for the shower...
Grover Cleveland Bergdoll, World War I's slick slacker, lashed himself into an offensive fury. The butler on his Downington (Pa.) estate told police all about it: when he demanded $150 in back pay, fat, 52-year-old Bergdoll gave him a quick sock in the head, then grabbed a shotgun. "I'll shoot you down like a dog," said Bergdoll. Wife Berta Bergdoll stepped in, ruled out a shooting war, let it go to law. The butler's charge: assault & battery and pointing of firearms...
Other G.I.s demonstrated in Honolulu. In Paris several hundred paraded down the Champs Elysées waving magnesium flares and yelling "scab" and "slacker" at soldiers who declined to join the mob. In London 500 soldiers met in Grosvenor Square. When a sergeant bellowed: "Do you know who we got on this side [of the Atlantic]?" they roared back: "Eleanor!" A delegation marched to Claridge's Hotel, where Eleanor Roosevelt had arrived for the UNO conference, and demanded that she help them. They said she promised...
Bricklayer Stanley Jamrozy, 38, obdurately refused to work in the Apriority industry to which Canada's National Selective Service bosses assigned him. Instead he got a job on a tobacco farm. In Oshawa, Ont., he was fined $25 as a slacker...